Two Roads Home:Sweet Shadows The Contributors Duncan Cameron, violin, percussion, whistles www.indiepool.com/duncancameron At folk festivals and Celtic music venues, Cameron is well known for his strong vocals and remarkable instrumental abilities. He plays twelve instruments, including fiddle, whistles, and Irish bouzouki. He has toured solo and with numerous bands across Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. Between tours, he teaches his many instruments in Toronto. His debut solo album, The Whistling Thief, released in 2000, features both traditional music and his original songs and instrumentals. He is currently a member of Tamarack, The Pierre Schryer Band, and Fig for a Kiss. Jerry Donnelly, mandolins and harmony vocals Born in Hackensack New Jersey and a veteran singer, mandolin, guitar, bodhran and tenor banjo player, Jerry makes his home in Toronto and has gigged all over this fine province. Chances are you’ve seen him at pubs, clubs or concert venues with folk and early music bands like The Sculpins, riverrun and his own Jerry Donnelly Trio. Festivals include the Earth Air Fire and Water Festival in Goderich Ontario, The Mill Race Festival in Cambridge, and North by Northeast in Toronto. Jerry has also played with musicians like Jamie Snider (Tip Splinter, Morgain Le Fay), Rick Fielding and Steve Paul Simms. James Gordon, accordion, penny whistle, precussion, banjo www.jamesgordon.ca Based in Guelph, Ontario, James Gordon is known to many North Americans as the founder of Canada's premier folk group TAMARACK. With this durable trio he toured every corner of the continent, recorded fourteen albums, and made countless television and radio appearances. He has become well known for his original songs about Canada's identity and heritage. He was a regular songwriting contributor to the CBC radio programmes Ontario Morning and Basic Black. He has also released numerous solo albums for adults and children, composed works for symphony orchestras, co-written a popular series of Jim and Dave family musicals and written music for theatre, dance and film. His original folk opera Hardscrabble Road debuted in 2003. His songs have been recorded by a number of other artists including The Cowboy Junkies, Melanie Doane, Hilary Spencer, Al Simmons, Ian Bell and James Keelaghan. This year his song Frobisher Bay was featured on Canada's most successful television program ever, Canadian Idol, and his song Mining For Gold is in the new John Sayles film Silver City starring Kris Kristoferson, Daryl Hannah and Richard Dreyfus. These days James tours North America and Great Britain as a solo act or accompanied by Sandy Horne on bass and Marion Linton on fiddle. Ten years ago he started his own recording studio, Pipe Street Studio, in Guelph, and he's become known as a producer of primarily acoustic roots music there. He has donned his producer’s hat for many notable musicians, including Ian Bell, Brian Pickel, Margaret Christl, Mike Beauchamp, Rick Charboneau, Mary Anderson and Jude Vadala. Richard Roy, Drums www.sourpuss.ca Rick was raised in the blues rich area of West Hill, and has played in all kinds of bands including The Electric Cellophane Window, Swing Shift Big Band, Pickering Dixieland Band, The Blues Bandits, H.O.G, George Lake Big Band, Swing Time Melodies, and The Red Suspenders Country Band. Career highlights include a recent New Year’s Eve gig with Jesse Cook at the Ottawa Centre for the Arts. Currently he is playing in the acoustic roots blues band Sourpuss, who have just released their first CD and in the Brazilian batteria band Samba Squad who recently won the Canadian Urban Music Award. Besides playing, Rick is also known as Slick Tickler, the author of a mail listing that covers drumming events in the GTA and all things related to rhythm (hmmm…). |
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Geoff Summers, mandolin, violin |
